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Ryugi saw the caltrops headed his way, but prepared for them. He flew over Sienna's head and towards the little metal spikes. As he moved through the air, he spun and twisted his body to position himself so that he landed in a crouched position with his legs bent, the metal spikes digging through the bottom of his boots until they reached the metal plate below the padding inside the boot which stopped them from reaching any farther. This took a total of maybe 1 second, and as he landed, he dashed forward while Sienna was still on her back, recovering from her little kick.

He was ready this time for anything she could throw at him, literally. And as she was still recovering from her little kicking stunt, he'd have plenty of time to come up with his attack.

Sienna didn't even pause in her onslaught as she twisted and then rolled to her feet, her left hand was already dropping to her belt. The first thing that happened was that her fingers brushed a switch on the silvered belt, remotely activating the capacitor cores of the caltrops moments after Ryugi made his graceful landing. The capacitors didn't carry a huge charge, but it was enough to scramble nerve impulses and cause involuntary muscle spasms all along Ryugi's leg from the electrical shock. As well as enough to leave a small hanging stench from burnt fabric. The second thing she did as she regained her footing was palming a spherical orb from one of the many pouches at her side and then casting it at the ground right at the edge of the caltrop field exploding in a rather dramatic POP of grayish smoke which hung in a quickly expanding barrier to vision between Ryugi and Sienna.

The first thing Ryugi would likely notice as he focused was that Sienna's footsteps only went for a few steps. The faded slightly as if Sienna was putting distance between her and where Ryugi was, which was indeed what she WAS doing. The second thing he would likely notice was that even with closed lids would be the burning sensation growing in his eyes, and in his throat from the olerin capsacin laced throughout the smoke. A single inhalation would make breathing difficult simply because the chemical, the primary active ingredient in pepper sprays, would quickly change regular breathing to coughing, wheezing and choking unless you were keeping the cloud of smoke a very wide berth, as Sienna was doing.

The compound of the smoke was designed specifically to spread the "pepper" effect and since olerin capsacin is more of an oily substance, it meant the "smoke" wouldn't spread nearly as far or hang nearly as long in the air as something meant for simply obscuring vision. In fact it would begin to dissipate after about 15 seconds. It WOULD however help mostly disable anyone caught in the smoke for a length of time and would still debilitate people who stayed in only for a moment.

What Sienna had done was merely step a safe distance from the cloud and wait, left side pointed where she had last seen Ryugi.

CREAAAAAAAAAK

The last creak came untimed with any of Chris' shaking.

Ah dinnae think theres anyone out there. Though there is someone in here...

Trista was at the opposite end of the cage from Chris, leaning easily against the wall. She wasn't sure why she was here, but then, that wouldn't be the first time. Brushing her right hand at some invisible lint on her pant leg she idly examined her left hand's threadbare and torn glove while waiting for a response.

Trista paused and brushed a strand of her black hair out of her face and arched a single eyebrow at Chris.

Then a couple voices inaudible to anyone not standing RIGHT next to Trista spoke
I think he's making fun of you Tris

Oh great Dex, she'd never have noticed without you

Can it both of ye. Ye seem ready to fight. But d'ye have the skills to back up ye're attitude?

Trista remained leaning against the cage wall as her eyes flicked over Chris with a quick once-over glance... one that showed she was NOT impressed.

The corner of Trista's mouth twitched slightly as boy continued to talk

Ye're assuming ye could beat me even with the help of magic

She shifted her position against the cage wall and gave an abbreviated shrug.

Ah dinnae care what you do. Just try it and we'll see.

Trista's eyes widened as the vines wrapped around her ankles, but then she adopted again the bored, uninterested look that she'd been holding the entire time there.

Pointing her right palm towards the ground she held the posture until the last possible moment. Just as Chris finished his charge and began to punch she moved her legs, pushing herself to the left. The vines wrapped around legs crackled and then snapped, breaking into pieces, having been frozen solid. The brittle pieces shattered as Trista easily sidestepped left while simultaneously turning clockwise to watch Chris' punch miss her and slam into the cage wall. In the next instant her right hand shot out and grasped at Chris' wrist while her left hand dove toward the back of his neck, in a move that would pull the fist to the right and off of the cage wall while simultaneously bashing Chris' face against the wall.

Trista's right arm pulled backwards from Chris' attempted grip at him, aided in the fact that the glove on her right hand seemed to be suddenly covered in a thin, very slippery layer of ice. The next instant she was leaping backwards a fact made possible because the moment the snake bind wrapped around her legs, the vines had broken apart, in a much more spectacular style then previously as every bit of heat that had been sucked out of the first two vines to freeze them were directed back into the new vines at certain points, superheating the water at those points and essentially causing segments to explode.

Oddly enough, in addition to this, water seemed to be pooling around Tristas' feet, and the very air in her vicinity was damp. A glistening sheen of liquid could be seen flowing across her exposed skin, such as her face.